About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

April 3......

April 3 is the 93rd (94th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Authority "The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." — Stanley Milgram

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Hypocrisy "We will rid the world of evildoers." — George W. Bush

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 309 - -BC- Origin of Seleucid Era

● 245 - -BC- Origin of Era of Arsaces

● 419 - [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

● 1077 - Creation of the first Parliament of Friuli.

● 1189 - The Peace of Strasbourg was signed, resolving the differences between Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany and Pope Clement III.

● 1312 - 2nd council of Vienna

● 1376 - Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France

● 1528 - In Cologne, German reformer Adolf Clarenbach, 28, was arrested for teaching Protestant (some say Anabaptist or Waldensian) doctrines. The following year, Clarenbach was burned at the stake for his faith.

● 1860 - Pony Express service begins, between Sacramento, Calif. and St. Joseph, Missouri. It was discontinued six and a half months later due to the completion of the first transcontinental telegraph line. An ad in California newspaper read - "Wanted. Young, skinny, wiry fellows. Not over 18. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred."

● 1862 - Slavery was abolished in Washington, DC.

● 1864 - Skirmish at Okolona AR

● 1865 - Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign)

● 1865 - American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

● 1950 - Death of American hymnwriter Ira B. Wilson, 70. Associated with Lorenz Publishing in Dayton, Ohio for over 40 years, Wilson's most enduring sacred composition was "Make Me a Blessing" (aka "Out of the Highways and Byways of Life").

● 1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress

● 1954 - United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 833 strikes the Kohler bathroom fixtures company in Kohler, Wisconsin. Before the union contract expired, the company prepared for the strike by installing rooftop searchlights and arming guards with shotguns, tear gas, revolvers, and thousands of ammunition rounds. The strike did not end until September 1960, when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decides the Kohler Company is guilty of refusing to bargain. The company will agree to reinstate 1,400 strikers and pay them $4.5 million in back pay and pension credits.

● 1955 - Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39

● 1955 - Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300

● 1955 - The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

● 1956 - The western part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado (known as the Hudsonville-Standale Tornado).

● 1956 - Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated

● 1956 - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Rühl/Siebens/Viebahn are freed

● 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr., launches a voter registration drive in Birmingham, Alabama. Police Chief "Bull" Connor responds with fire hoses and attack dogs. Sit-ins and demonstrations begun by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and volunteers. The city government will get an injunction to prevent demonstrations a week later, and King and many others will be jailed for violating the injunction.

● 1963 - Seven hundred in Budget Day protest against taxation for nuclear arms, House of Commons, London.

● 1973 - The first portable cell phone call is placed in New York City.

● 1974 - California Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke indicted on three counts of lying under oath during a Senate Judiciary Committee investigation into charges that political influence was a major factor in the settlement of an antitrust case against ITT.

● 1974 - The Super Outbreak occurs, with 148 tornadoes affecting 13 U.S. states and 1 Canadian province, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

● 1984 - Sikh terrorists killed a member of the Indian Parliament in his home.

● 1984 - Col. Lansana Konte became the new president of Guinea when the armed forces seized power after the death of Sekou Toure.

● 1985 - Far right congressional loony Bob Dornan (R-CA.) reveals the "best compliment" he has yet received on the House of Representatives floor -- Henry Hyde (R-IL.) had said to him, "If we were Indians in the Plains Wars and you were a cavalry trooper, we would kill you just to drink your blood." This explained Bob was how true warriors showed respect. {The good news is that the voters of Orange County California woke up and stopped re-electing this fool.}

● 1985 - The U.S. charged that Israel violated the Geneva Convention by deporting Shiite prisoners.

● 1996 - A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.

● 1997 - Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

● 2000 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

● 2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

● 2006 - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty before an international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone, denying he'd helped destabilize West Africa through killings, sexual slavery and sending children into combat.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Adjutor● St. Agape (d. 304)● St. Ajuture● St. Aimo● St. Aphrodisius● St. Attala● St. Cynwl● St. Desideratus● St. Donatus● St. Eutropius● St. Evagrius & Benignus● St. Fara● St. Forannan● St. Gerard Miles● St. Joseph Cottolengo● St. Lawrence of Novara● St. Louis von Bruck● St. Marianus● St. Maximus● St. Nicetas● St. Pius V, Pope● St. Pomponius● St. Richard of Chichester● St. Richard of Wyche● St. Sixtus I, Pope● St. Vulpian● Bl. Francis Dickenson● Bl. Miles Gerard

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 21 (Civil Date: April 3)● St. James the Confessor, Bishop of Catania.● St. Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople.● St. Cyril, Bishop of Catania.● St. Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt.● St. Pachomius, monk of Nerekhta.● St. Lupicinus, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains (Gaul).● New-Martyr Archbishop Theodore Pozdeyev (1938).

● Greek Calendar:● Martyrs Philemon and Domnina of Rome.

● Anglican:● Richard, Bishop of Chichester

● Sizdah be dar (Outdoor thirteen). In Iran, people play jokes on each other on April 3, the thirteenth day of the Persian calendar new year (Norooz).

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Switzerland: Glarius Festival (1388) - (Thursday)● Massachusett : Student Government Day - (Friday)

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